I tried to include an image of the formula using the IMG tag instead of text, but it wouldn't display.:( Any tips on how to include an image in a comment on/.?
Upload it to some other website and put the URL in your comment.
By the way, I believe that the 387 math coprocessor has been axed on the 64-bit side of the processors and SSE2 is explicitly used for mathematics there instead.
Going further, I wonder if it is possible to rip the 32-bit parts completely away from the silicon at some point?
Ubuntu is the derivative. The original work - without which Ubuntu wouldn't exist - is still here after 20 years and has never used such underhanded tactics on its users, and it actually has and follow a Social Contract that ensures it.
Let's not forget how Ubuntu made a lot of stuff just work and paved the way for Linux desktop in an important way.
That's what we did in my day. We called it freeware, and if someone asked if they could see how you did something in your code then you probably took it as a compliment and sent them the file, and no-one gave a damn about copyright on their toy code or plastering boilerplate legalese all over source files.
That's what I have been thinking too. People are so obsessed today with various licenses, should I pick GPL, BSD, MIT, zlib, CC-BY-SA... I'm a programmer, not a lawyer. Just put your name on it, for your own little projects that should be enough.
It simply seems that Ubuntu has seriously started to look into ways for collecting more money. Remember, it started with the donation page being shown when you download the ISO. What do you think, will more robust money backing make better open source software?
My laptop which runs like a proper gaming rig for games like this: dual core AMD E350, 6GB RAM, 2GB Radeon HD, 64-bit host OS. I run Emperor in a VM with 1GB memory, 256MB video and just one core. Fucking FLIES in fullscreen, on an external monitor and forced to 1440x900.
Little E350 paired with a big 2GB dedicated video card? Doesn't the CPU bottleneck games? What laptop is that, an interesting combination actually.
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I tried to include an image of the formula using the IMG tag instead of text, but it wouldn't display. :( Any tips on how to include an image in a comment on /.?
Upload it to some other website and put the URL in your comment.
Hehheh! Did you actually confuse him with John McAfee? That's hilarious!
Grammar fix: I guess that's supposed to be "but to whom it happened".
Yes, it is backwards-compatibility, in other words, 486 can run 386 code, not other way around.
By the way, I believe that the 387 math coprocessor has been axed on the 64-bit side of the processors and SSE2 is explicitly used for mathematics there instead.
Going further, I wonder if it is possible to rip the 32-bit parts completely away from the silicon at some point?
A 2.4 kernel is probably a more appropriate candidate for a 386 anyway.
PS. Maybe I should register myself a username.
Recommended, as then all your posts will start at +1, and you get notifications for replies to your comments.
Heh, I know. Even these days I have recently caught myself of trying to peek further around a corner in a 3D game using my head only.
Remember, byuu also scanned the cover art and manuals.
Exactly.
Someday, I'll make an ARM-optimized SNES emulator and you'll be my inspiration.
Begin today.
Geez man, why must you format your messages like that??
Now that's what I call science...
"Free as in beer" is not Stallman's main point, but to reach for software which does not have malicious features and uses open standards.
And I was not calling you the glans penis either [that's the medical term for the head of the penis].)
BTW the medical term for sperm is spermatozoa.
Ubuntu is the derivative. The original work - without which Ubuntu wouldn't exist - is still here after 20 years and has never used such underhanded tactics on its users, and it actually has and follow a Social Contract that ensures it.
Let's not forget how Ubuntu made a lot of stuff just work and paved the way for Linux desktop in an important way.
That's what we did in my day. We called it freeware, and if someone asked if they could see how you did something in your code then you probably took it as a compliment and sent them the file, and no-one gave a damn about copyright on their toy code or plastering boilerplate legalese all over source files.
That's what I have been thinking too. People are so obsessed today with various licenses, should I pick GPL, BSD, MIT, zlib, CC-BY-SA... I'm a programmer, not a lawyer. Just put your name on it, for your own little projects that should be enough.
By the way, here's how Jono Bacon responded to the criticism from Stallman.
I agree. Specifically, that makes Ubuntu less free software, by the definition of RMS, as a program having malicious features.
It simply seems that Ubuntu has seriously started to look into ways for collecting more money. Remember, it started with the donation page being shown when you download the ISO. What do you think, will more robust money backing make better open source software?
Heh. I wonder if BSDs are taking the crown of "alternative operating system" from Linux, while Linux becomes an actual mainstream thing.
HI bsd!
In other news...
I guess 3D printing could soon be used to print some of the plastic parts of a keyboard.
I was starting to talk about Overnet/eDonkey, but it appears that it has been taken down by RIAA. Apparently it wasn't truly decentralized.
My laptop which runs like a proper gaming rig for games like this: dual core AMD E350, 6GB RAM, 2GB Radeon HD, 64-bit host OS. I run Emperor in a VM with 1GB memory, 256MB video and just one core. Fucking FLIES in fullscreen, on an external monitor and forced to 1440x900.
Little E350 paired with a big 2GB dedicated video card? Doesn't the CPU bottleneck games? What laptop is that, an interesting combination actually.